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Beautiful day today - went for a cycle ride this morning then my mate phoned up - back from sea yesterday and wants to ride his new BMW K1300s - been away a month and he was missing his bike more than his wife .

So got ready and headed out for a blast to Helmsley - got 10 miles down the road and the back end was weaving around. Stopped to investigate and heard the hissing of escaping air from my rear rubber. Luckily I had a can of Motul repair and inflator stuff and was able to limp home.

Pissed off but glad I noticed early and it was just a gentle ride - could have been worse.

I was out today too and a couple of times I thought maybe I had a puncture. In the end I put it down to all the salt and grit on the road was causing it to get a little "sqirrely" at times.

I even gave the bike a rinse afterwards.

Cue the mighty Nooj with his sales pitch .... just the stuff to prevent escaping gases from your rear

HisNibbs wrote:I was out today too and a couple of times I thought maybe I had a puncture. In the end I put it down to all the salt and grit on the road was causing it to get a little "sqirrely" at times.

I even gave the bike a rinse afterwards.

You're not wrong - couldn't work out for a while why it felt that there was so little grip .... then I realised it was the grit deposited everywhere.
On roundabouts and some corners you could have gone beach racing - wasn't sure whether to cut inside it or treat it as a berm ....

Coming home in the dark had to take it quite steady as I didn't want to run into any camels that may be roaming through the dunes .... and it was soooo cold .........

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MOTORCYCLE-PUNCTU ... 518ffb8dd8

^^Perhaps one of these is in order?^^

Yes I've seen these before. Don't know anyone who has actually used one though - Anyone got experience of these repair kits?

The Motul canister was not very effective but go me home (only 10 miles)

Carried one for years but never used it myself. Have used the cartridges to get others to a repair shop.

DavShill wrote:Yes I've seen these before. Don't know anyone who has actually used one though - Anyone got experience of these repair kits?

The Motul canister was not very effective but go me home (only 10 miles)

Yes I've used one.
I'll tell you the story:
A year or two back I got a rear puncture travelling down to see my parents - managed to get to my destination by adding air at every petrol station from where it occurred 'till I got to their house .... which wasn't really often enough.
When I got there we managed to prop the back of the bike up off the ground and start looking for the hole.
That was the hard part - without a footpump to put air in and a bowl of soapy water to find the hole, there is absolutely no way that we'd have found where it was punctured. On my own by the side of the road - no chance ... in the dark - impossible.
Once we'd located it I plugged it with the kit (which wasn't that easy but I managed OK).
It got me home and then worked fine until I got a professional repair - and given that it happened on a Sunday and I couldn't find anywhere to repair or replace a tyre, it's a very good thing.

So, if you can find the puncture (ie a huge nail marks the spot) then it's good. If you can't, then it's a bit crap.

Solutions:

• * Nooj's jollop that finds the puncture all by itself and fixes as you ride
  * I know people that have used their breakdown assistance to rescue them

No he's not on commision

Buy a 'get you home eventually' plug kit for £13 and then a new tyre for another £130. OR... go to my shop and buy a bottle of Puncturesafe puncture preventative jollop for £20.

Save yourself £120 odd, plus however many wasted hours by the side of the road and at the tyre fitters. The choice, as they say, is yours.

www.shinybikesyndrome.co.uk

My old man's used a similar compound for years. I wont mention names, but it does the same thing as nooj's Jollop. When he had the rear done on his touring tank, the chap said there were 2 witness marks to where punctures had occurred. Me old man knew nothing about it. No air loss, no slow puncture.. nowt. So, Jollop it..

Be Ultraseal I expect? Puncturesafe used to be their UK distributor, but had a bit of a falling out. More or less the same stuff, Puncturesafe's made in the UK with a few different polymers, Ultraseal's made in the US and is now imported over here by Ultraseal GB, set up by a former Puncturesafe employee.